A LOT OF NFL ACTION EXPECTED DURING OFFSEASON

Even San Francisco’s restaurateurs are lamenting the 49ers’ distasteful defection. One wrote, “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that restaurants would benefit from both the stadium build-out and the Super Bowl. What’s this have to do with the restaurant business? Plenty. Empty stadiums and hotels mean fewer tourist dollars at lunch and dinner in the City of San Francisco.”

In Oakland, it’s Hail Mary time to get that team a new stadium, report San Francisco Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross.

Oakland “is on the verge of putting up $3 million for the designers of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis — site of Sunday’s Super Bowl — to work their magic and come up with a new stadium and sports complex out at the Coliseum,” they wrote.

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